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Disclaimer: The following remarks aren’t meant as an exhaustive commentary on the plenitude of issues broached by either the review or the book in question. These are but brief observations on the generally negative response Jordan Peterson has drawn from certain expected corners, of which Pankaj Mishra’s is but one, albeit highly illustrative, example. The…

In the first article of this series, I examined the role of the traditional family in creating a prosperous and healthy society; in its ability to stabilise potentially chaotic social situations and socialise children in preparation for a positive role in later life. The first part of this article will continue this important analysis, but…

Gender equality is a tough thing to discuss as a man in 2017. Quite often you’ll be met with phrases like “check your privilege”, or get accused of “mansplaining”, this can happen even when you are in agreement. So when exactly is it our place to discuss the matter? The feminist struggle towards gender equality…

It can be said that in my intellectual youth, a period defined as it always is by untempered enthusiasm, I was often taken to a kind of revolutionary fervour. The sparkle of this fervour appeared to open up a whole world of potential; to right wrongs, to deliver justice where it wasn’t to be found,…

It can be said that in our times, a theme which has come to characterize a plethora of opinions on subjects as diverse as conduct in public transport to mass shootings in America, has been the designation of “masculinity’’ as the root source of various calamities. The increasingly distinctive mark of so-called ‘progressive’ discourse is…

The last eighty years has been a time of unprecedented liberality and emancipation for women at all levels of society. Indeed, in many spheres their success is beginning to eclipse that of their ancient and feckless foe: men. In an information-sharing economy not founded upon the sweat of labour (not western sweat, at any…

The Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci once observed that the extent to which structures in society, that is, the public and collective institutions which serve as enforcers of norms and customs, are malleable and open to modification is in many ways determined by what prevails in the culture of that society- the realm of opinion and…